Wednesday, August 2, 2017
Injury and illness, prolonged or acute, are damaging to any career path, and dancers face unique challenges when it comes to earning a living while healing. Wage earning potential for dancer…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 08:40PMBroadway Connection Teaching Artist Leah Hofmann is a St. Louis native who currently resides in New York City when she’s not touring with Something Rotten! She’s a former Rockette who�…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 08:39PMHave you checked out this video clip of New York City Ballet’s Ashley Bouder executing flawless fouetté turns at 37 weeks pregnant? Insane, right? Well, yes and no. Today, more and more f…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 08:01PMTuesday, August 1, 2017
California Ballet Company and San Diego Musical Theatre are presenting Billy Elliot the Musical at the historic Spreckels Theatre this fall. Dance Informa chatted with Jared Nelson, choreogr…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 11:28AMDancing offers so many beautiful gifts. That’s why so many of us are so powerfully drawn to it. George Balanchine once said, “I don’t want dancers who want to dance. I want dancers who…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 11:27AMBroadway Connection Teaching Artist Maria Rodriguez has just been cast in the new On Your Feet! National Tour, which will bring the hit Broadway musical sharing the story of Gloria and Emili…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 11:23AMChicago Human Rhythm Project (CHRP), a presenter of tap dance and percussive arts, has recently announced that Daniel “Dani” Borak is its Artist in Residence, a position that the perform…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 11:21AMThey say “home is where the heart is”, and for Alexis Fletcher and Sylvain Senez, that is doubly true, as their home in Vancouver, Canada, is where their passion project, outdoor dance f…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 11:20AM Since moving to Chicago, to say Michelle Lauto has been busy is an understatement. She’s played the iconic Liza Minnelli (The Boy from Oz), the big-city-dreaming Vanessa from In the Hei…
SOURCE: stageandcandor.com at 06:00AMMonday, July 31, 2017
Through centuries and through decades, artistic trends have been clear. Yet artists who truly stand out are ones who push those trends, sometimes steering things in a completely new directio…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 09:24PMDance is an ever-evolving art form. Style draws on inspiration — building upon what’s already been done. But it’s the context and creativity that help to create movement or performance…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 08:54PMConflicting ideas are rampant in the lives of pre-teens and teens – they often hear completely different messages from the authority figures in their life than, say, what advertisements an…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 08:38PM To hear some people tell it, New York is the only incubator for the most exciting young artists. But as the Sharon Playhouse proves, creating work outside of the Broadway and Off-Broadway…
SOURCE: stageandcandor.com at 06:00AMTuesday, July 25, 2017
The NY Dance and Performance Awards (“The Bessies”), New York City’s premier dance awards honoring outstanding creative work in the field, recently announced the nominees for the 2016�…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 09:14PMThursday, July 20, 2017
Theater has a sneaky way of recycling itself. It’s relevant. Then time passes. And then it’s just like new again. Ragtime at Barrington Stage arrives at a time where the issues from t…
SOURCE: stageandcandor.com at 07:00AMWednesday, July 19, 2017
In summer 2013, brother and sister duo Jeffrey and Lia Cirio, principal dancers with American Ballet Theatre and Boston Ballet, respectively, started a summer gig for choreographers and danc…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 10:45PMMonday, July 17, 2017
Last week, I had the opportunity to speak to Rubén Polendo, the Founding Artistic Director of Theater Mitu to talk about reinventing the classic American play by Arthur Miller, Death of …
SOURCE: stageandcandor.com at 06:00AMFriday, July 14, 2017
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Massachusetts. July 7, 2017. Part of artistic modernism is a chipping away at – even, sometimes, a knocking down of – the walls betweens …
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 09:33AMMonday, July 10, 2017
The Joyce Theater, New York, NY. June 30, 2017. It’s 2017, and in order for audiences to be wowed nowadays, performances often incorporate high-tech special effects, complex mechanical set…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 10:40AMMonday, July 3, 2017
If you are a dancer, you’ve heard the term “Marley Floors” at some point. When you think about them, you probably imagine the flooring of your home dance studio, or that performance su…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 09:36AMChase Johnsey is not afraid to be different. And from mimicking the line dancing in a Billy Ray Cyrus music video, to winning national titles in clogging, and now to performing male and fema…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 09:19AMJacob’s Pillow, celebrating its 85th Festival in 2017, is a National Historic Landmark, recipient of the National Medal of Arts and home to America’s longest-running international d…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 09:15AMWhat do Sylvie Guillem, Natalie Portman, Serena Williams, Alec Baldwin and Joaquin Phoenix have in common? They are all very public about their vegan diet. While the term “vegan” might s…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 09:07AMThey say that costuming can make or break a performance. If your dancers are stellar, it won’t matter, bad costumes are merely a dent in a solid structure. But also, if your dancers are st…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 08:41AMWithout question, water is an incredibly important ingredient for life. We can live far longer without food than we can without water. H2O is at the center of innumerable chemical reactions …
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 08:38AMDenis Jones is one of today’s most exciting choreographers on the musical theater scene. Whether designing dances for an original work or a revival production, his aesthetic draws upon cla…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 08:20AMNothing can replace taking class for developing technique and artistry, of course. But learning about dance history, contemporary choreographers and companies, technique and performance tips…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 08:14AMMost dancers are familiar with the Rockettes, Radio City Music Hall’s dance troupe of tall, talented and beautiful precision dancers. While the Rockettes are best known for their annual Ch…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 08:05AMIn May, Kentucky native Mac Allen was named the winner for BellaMoxi Dance Convention’s 2017 Emerging Artists Choreographic Festival in Phoenix, AZ, for her routine A State of Being. Curre…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 08:02AMEmily Molnar, artistic director of Ballet BC, has had a vision for the Canadian company since she took over its leadership in 2009: to be a hub of creativity where choreographers can instant…
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 08:00AMSunday, July 2, 2017
As dancers, we buy and wear a lot of makeup — red lipstick, false eyelashes, peachy pink blush and so much more. But have you ever wondered about the history of the makeup industry in our …
SOURCE: www.danceinforma.com at 09:23PM 
